Decision public outreach projects

InfoHarvest has been engaged in a growing number of public planning processes,
teaming with mediators and neutral 3rd parties to engage the public in complex decisions
online, in workshops and in facilitated meetings.

Projects

InfoHarvest, working with Fox Mediation used the DecisionHarvest platform to provide online MCDA support to the Santa Cruz Water Supply Advisory Committee as the committee deveopled a portfolio of projects to meet water supply and demand needs for the next 20 years. Features of the MCDA support was gathering weights for project under multiple scenarios, analyzing uncertainty in ratings and variance in weights through mu;ltiplephases of the project.

Group decision support for Non-native Invasive Species Management (NISM) on Ft. Huachuca, Az. 2010-2012

Working with USACE and the Redlands Institute, designed and created an online group elicitation system based on weights of respect and utilizing a consensus convergence approach to weights aggregation. Facilitated elicitation process on the base, and post meeting analysis. The acquired group weights were then used in the full NISM system to prioritize weed patches for management, with results and analysis rendered in maps and charts.

Report: With Carie Fox, wrote and submitted to USIECR the collaboration Report Face-to-Face and Internet Collaboration for the Giant Sequoia National Monument in Summer 2011. Awaiting for go-ahead to post it.

DEIS: Created the Value and Interests-based Explorer to engage citizens in exploring the Draft EIS that was published for comment in the Fall of 2010.

Scoping: provided a test drive the Value and Interests-based Explorer at gsnmvibe.ecr.gov.

Pre-scoping: provided an innovative, context-centric comment gathering web application for the pre-scoping phase of the